Senior Fraud and Risk Engineer

2 months, 1 week ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
Soft112

Soft112

Soft112 is an online software library providing free and trial programs for various platforms, with a focus on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Mobile phones. Softland, founded in 1999, offers quality software in file backup and document creation.

Internet Software & Services
Founded 2009

Description

  • Own and evolve Breeze’s fraud risk engine across all merchant categories.
  • Design and maintain a scalable rules architecture with category-level defaults, merchant-specific overrides, velocity checks, and blocklists.
  • Tune thresholds and features across merchant segments to improve approval rates and reduce fraud.
  • Build feedback loops between manual review, chargeback data, and model retraining to improve detection accuracy.
  • Partner with risk operations to convert fraud patterns into automated rules and systems.
  • Lead onboarding of new merchants into the risk stack and calibrate risk for new verticals.
  • Monitor and improve fraud KPIs including approval rate, chargeback rate, and false positive rate.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and operations to keep risk systems scalable and integrated.
  • Drive measurable improvements in fraud performance through rules, model tuning, and chargeback analysis.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in fraud or risk engineering in fintech, payments, or related technology environments.
  • Proven experience working with or integrating fraud detection platforms such as Sift, Sardine, Forter, Feedzai, or Kount.
  • Experience supporting multi-merchant or marketplace environments with complex risk needs.
  • Strong understanding of payments infrastructure, transaction flows, and fraud vectors.
  • Hands-on experience with rules engine design, including layered rules, velocity checks, and scalable rule management.
  • Deep operational fraud knowledge, including manual review workflows, chargeback handling, and false positive analysis.
  • Comfort working cross-functionally and translating operational insights into technical systems.
  • Ability to own systems end-to-end from design through production and iteration.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
  • Familiarity with PCI compliance, 3DS, and PSP-level risk tooling is a plus.
  • Experience in high-risk verticals such as gaming, crypto, or digital goods is a plus.
  • Preference for a candidate who can work hybrid in the NYC office.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary plus equity.
  • 21 days of PTO.
  • Flexible benefits including an annual medical allowance, productivity allowance, and gym/well-being subsidy.
  • Annual team retreat.
  • Opportunity to build core risk infrastructure at a Sequoia-backed company with strong momentum and runway.

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